It has been quite a while since I posted last and I apologize for that. There has been a lot going on since my last entry. I’m not gonna go into detail, but I will give you a quick rundown.
My family and I have sold our house in Louisiana and moved back to [...]
We’re getting ready to leave Louisiana. Yay! If anyone is looking to buy a 2 bedroom, 1 bath house near Hammond, Louisiana. Shoot me an email with your contact information for more details.
justin at thetacom dot info
**Update**
We have successfully sold our house and acquiring housing in Arizona. I thank all of you who provided feedback [...]
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Here’s a very interesting slideshow I just found. It proposes using XMPP as a quick and lightweight alternative to bulky feeds and HTML.
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
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This new passenger is a joy to have around. He is very friendly and truly helpful. This passenger I’m referring to is Passenger a.k.a. mod_rails for Apache web servers. Passenger is produced by Phusion, a computer science company that specializes in IT products and services.
From their site:
“Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails) is a open source product [...]
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Farewell all!
Well, I finally got my orders. I thought it was never going to happen. Being a recruiter has been a unique experience to say the least. Though one I’m definitely not going to miss. In many ways I found my time out here more traumatizing than the year I spent in Iraq. Although my [...]
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This is a plugin that is design to assist in the usage of the dojo toolkit with your rails application. It is still very much in the works, so any recommendation are definitely welcome. It is designed to be used with Rails 2+ and Dojo 1.1. The full dojo 1.1 library [...]
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Coming Soon!
I am working on a plugin that will assist in integrating the Dojo Toolkit libraries into your rails applications. I have made good progress so far. It has a variety of helpers to make short work to inlude the dojo core library and specify the requires, create dijits, use dojo functions and experiment with dojox. Currently [...]
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These are my links for March 23rd through March 29th:
The Dojo Toolkit - now with more bling - A spoof on the scriptaculous site. Shows a variety of dojotoolkits features. And is still functional at the same time.
HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion in Ruby on Rails -
Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers - [...]
These are some of the items that I use frequently throughout the development process. Hopefully you will find them useful also.
Serverside Frameworks
Ruby on Rails: An open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
Homepage - Download - API - Community
CakePHP: Enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.
Homepage - [...]
These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd:
ProtoFlow first preview release? :: Deensoft -
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don?t Know - Some little known tricks for those of you using Rails.
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: For attaching files, use Paperclip - A rails plugin for managing file [...]
As of Rails 2.0 the in_place_editor methods have been moved into a plugin. You can download this plugin here. For some items I needed to have a dropdown selection instead of a text field. To add this functionality, I added two methods to the plugin.
Here is the full contents of ‘in_place_macros_helper.rb’ http://pastie.caboo.se/169443
Replace the contents of [...]
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These are my links for February 20th through March 21st:
Rails Revision 9066: /plugins - Upon release of rails 2.0, this a list of items that have been moved out of rails core and into plugins.
GreyBox - Examples - The examples page for the GreyBox JS
Army Electronic Forms by Range - Army electronic forms by range
AT&T [...]
Well, yet again I’ve decided to change my blog theme. I try to keep things consistent, but the last one just wasn’t cutting it. I think this flows much better. The three column layout seems to be a better use of the space. Also this one is just more visually appealing. Which brings a good [...]
I was recently contacted by a previous client about modifying his site. He wanted a list of changes and additional features added. When I began preparing to make the changes, I was thrown into a mildly nightmarish flashback. His site was one of the first that I had ever worked [...]
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